About Us
At Finsolutia, we are growing our Information Technology (IT) team and are looking for an Senior SQL Server DBA (M/F) to join us in Lisbon. This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated professional who enjoys working with data, thrives on solving complex challenges, and wants to play a key role in shaping data-driven decision-making across the business.
What You'll Be Doing
As part of our collaborative IT team, you will:
* Installing, Configuring and Patching SQL Server instances both single instances as well as instances in High Availability (Availability Groups), ensuring the defined versions and patches of the product.
* Monitoring CQ & PROD environments and implementing improvements for the monitoring system.
* Maintaining the environments secure by implementing the principle of the least privileges.
* Ensuring each environment's performance through regular maintenance for indexes and statistics.
* Troubleshooting performance problems by collaborating with the developer teams and solving the problems through right configurations and correct indexing.
* Working with multiple environnements (DEV, CQ, Production) accros multiple domains.
* Prioritizing the requests through ADO (Azure DevOps) and by using source control (ADO) for registering modifications.
* Helping developer teams to develop T-SQL scripts needed for the operational procedures.
* Accompanying product deployment procedures for every sprint and ensuring that environment safety and performance.
What We're Looking For (Hard Skills)
* Proven experience with SQL Server 2019+ multi-instance and high availability environments. Expertise with Installation, Configuration, Patching, Backups/Restores, Snapshots, Rollbacks are required.
* Very solid security knowledge and creativity for ensuring data safety.
* Strong expertise with SQL Server performance optimization on index level (rowstore, columnstore, fulltext, in-memory) as well as deep understanding of the statistics. Experience with partitioning is a bonus point.
* Great observability knowledge (starting with the knowledge of the relevant SQL Server DMVs).
* Outstanding T-SQL knowledge with SQL Server Experience with PaaS is greatly appreciated.
* Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and DevOps practices is not required but preferred.
* Good knowledge and experience with PostgreSQL and Power BI are strong differentiation points but are not required.
* Public Cloud experience (great understanding of Compute, Storage, Networking, Identity, etc) is a differentiation point.
* Minimum 5 years of professional experience in an Enterprise environment OR 7 years in any industry sector.
* At least a secondary school qualification (A-Levels or equivalent).
* Fluency in English and Portuguese. Spanish language knowledge is a big plus.
What Will Make You Stand Out (Soft Skills):
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across functions and companies.
* Self-motivated, proactive, and autonomous.
* Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities.
* A commitment to quality and testing excellence.
* A team player, focused on achieving results.
Why Join Us?
* Be part of a forward-thinking company where data truly drives decisions.
* Work in a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment.
* Take on a role with genuine impact, variety, and opportunities for growth.
* Enjoy being based in Lisbon, one of Europe's most vibrant tech hubs.
If you're passionate about data, technology, and continuous improvement, we'd love to hear from you.
We'd like to inform you that personal data collected here are exclusively destined to the management of the recruitment process in question and will be processed and storage by Finsolutia, SA, or another Group company, in accordance with Personal Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 during a period of 5 years, after which they will be definitively eliminated.
We further inform you that the holder will have free access to its personal data, and may request its updating, rectification or removal by simply sending the request in writing to:
Bernardo Cabral
Data Protection Officer